Oldfield v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Commercial Wharf East Condominium Ass'n v. Waterfront Parking Corp. (1990), Goldstein v. Beal (1945)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on MacLeod v. Davis · Fox v. Union Sugar Refinery · Mt. Holyoke Realty Corp. v. Holyoke Realty Corp. · Parker v. Smith · New York Central Railroad v. Stoneman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proving the intent of the parties to create an easement that is unexpressed in terms in a deed is upon the party asserting it, and, when the evidence establishes the requisite intent, 'it is now settled that the necessity of the easement for the enjoyment of the land conveyed is not an absolute physical necessity, but no more than a reasonable necessity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.